On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 17:41 -0700, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > > On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 15:28 -0700, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > >> There is a file in my home directory called .rnd. I presume it is the > >> seed for a random number generator. What program creates/uses it? I ran > >> yum provides */.rnd and nothing at all turned up. > > ---- > > yum only would know of files installed by yum packages themselves and > > never really knows about user generated files so it's hardly surprising > > that yum is in the dark about the origin of this file. > > > > If you really, really want to know, which program, then you could try > > this... > > > > mv ~/.rnd ~/.rnd-bak # moves the rnd file > > touch ~/.rnd # creates 0 length file > > chattr +i ~/.rnd # sets immutable bit > > > > and hope that whichever program that uses this file complains loudly > > > > and you can change this back by... > > > > chattr -i ~/.rnd > > rm ~/.rnd > > mv ~/.rnd-bak ~/.rnd > > > > Craig > > > > > > Yeah, I do really, really want to know, to satisfy long-standing curiosity > (and learn how the random number generator might serve me), but I will keep > your suggestion on hold for the time being, in the hope that someone will be > able to provide a direct answer to the identity of the program that created > it. You could also try the inotify-tools package, though inotify doesn't seem to record the pid of processes which cause watched events. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
